On February 10, 2022, the Wuhan team officially issued a farewell to the foreign player Evra, who has played for five seasons. Although at the end of 2021, it was officially announced that the player joined the Turkish Super League team Trabzon Sports, and recently completed the team's debut and winning goal, the Wuhan team officially issued a long post today to express their high respect and gratitude to the player.
Evra Quasi, an Ivorian international, joined the then Chinese Super League upstart Shanghai SIPG (now Shanghai Harbour) in the 2015 season, and is the team's fifth foreign aid. During his tenure, he was tasked with scoring goals on several occasions, and scored a number of magical goals against Guangzhou Evergrande during the team's large-scale injury. After the revision of the foreign aid policy of the Chinese Super League in the 2017 season, Evra could no longer stay in the squad of Shanghai Harbor, so the Wuhan team got this cost-effective foreign aid in the form of a free signing.
During his two years with SIPG, Evra played in a total of 45 games, contributing 12 goals and 4 assists. And most of the time it was off the bench. After the transfer to Wuhan, Evra became the team's hero and a key relegation figure for many seasons. It can even be said that without Evra, the Wuhan team is basically hovering in the Chinese First League. In his five seasons in Wuhan, Evra played 105 games and scored 41 goals and 10 assists. Evra's advantages and disadvantages are very obvious, strong breakthrough ability, fast speed, superb shooting, the disadvantage is weak passing ability, insufficient vision under the condition of the ball, lack of cooperation with teammates.
The Wuhan team officially expressed full understanding and respect for Evra's decision not to renew his contract and sent blessings for him to seek challenges at a higher level of the league. And congratulations on his first goal and hope he can get better and better. It is worth mentioning that at present, Trabzon Sports ranks first in the Turkish Super League, and is as many as nine points ahead of the second place, which means that Evra is very likely to win the Turkish Super League championship trophy after the end of this season's Europa League.
During the Chinese Super League period, Evra's dedication and cultural integration are very high, in the period of playing for the Shanghai Port team, and the central defender He Xi is a very good friend, after coming to Wuhan, he also mingled with his teammates and learned a lot of Wuhan dialect. At one point, there were rumors that the national football team had great hopes of naturalizing the player. Unfortunately, Evra himself chose to play for his home country and became a member of the Ivorian national team.
Compared with an unprofessional naturalized player like Fernando, Evra's failure to naturalize may be a big regret. In the current situation where the Chinese men's football midfield is weak to advance, such a breakthrough point is actually very valuable.
However, at present, I can only wish Xiao Hei's career a smooth sailing and a bright future!